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He even described Rohirrish as a language the hobbits intuited
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That, I think, was because Rohirric was an ancestral form of Westron (rendered in-book as Anglo-Saxon and English)- and a rather overgenerous notion of modern Anglophones' capacity for the 'intuiting' of Alfred's tongue. (Sure, Tolkien did- but he was
Tolkien.)